I've had a succession of iPods, iPhones and the iPad and have never stored more than a few dozen albums at a time on any device. I find it maddening to search through a lot of stuff that I thought would be cool to listen to at the time but later found to be uninteresting. I change up my content a lot.

I keep the music i listen the most, which total right now to about 12G

I actually like listening to music while working and reading books, so since I do that about 90% while using my iPad it make sense. That may change when iOS4 ipad is release since i could go back to listen to last.fm or pandora and i don;t have to relay on my own library

Guess i'm different; I don't.
I also don't keep it on my iPhone, mainly due to space and battery life. IMHO, that's what a dedicated iPod is for.
Of course, it does mean I've got more than one I-device with me at once, rather than the fabled do-everything wonder that we're supposed to look for.

How does someone get that much music? I have about 100 songs that take just a few Hundred meg. And I listen to even less. Now granted if it's past the 70s I don't listen to it but 100GB, damn .

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Bear in mind that I'm 40, and was a club dj, but it was pretty easy to accumulate several hundred gigs of music legally over the years. I still listen to almost all of it. I use some playlists to make my library easier to manage and I have turned off the songs I don't like, but honestly I usually have my library on shuffle.

Bear in mind that I'm 40, and was a club dj, but it was pretty easy to accumulate several hundred gigs of music legally over the years. I still listen to almost all of it. I use some playlists to make my library easier to manage and I have turned off the songs I don't like, but honestly I usually have my library on shuffle.

I keep all of it right now because I have 13gb at 256kb/s, once I get to 20gb I'll compress it to 128kb/s. After that, I'll keep it at 20gb of select music. I don't use iTunes videos or anything like that, so I figure 20gb out of my 60gb iPad is a good number. Even with like 50 apps, I still only use around 5gb for them. So I doubt ill ever fill this up, I can barely manage to fill up 120gb at my home computer, although, all the new games I've been getting are starting to push that number lol.

Originally, I had about 13GBs on my 32GB iPad, but that was only until I purchased the latest Touch. Now everything is on the iPod. If I ever get an iPhone I'll probably get rid of the Touch and keep everything on one of the new Nanos.

How does someone get that much music? I have about 100 songs that take just a few Hundred meg. And I listen to even less. Now granted if it's past the 70s I don't listen to it but 100GB, damn .

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I started collecting MP3s since the early days of Napster and had a considerable collection of CDs that I ripped. Nearly had a heart attack when I had a drive seize up on me. Back then, I backed up my MP3s on CDs so I lost nothing.

I keep my entire music library (approx. 25 GB) on the iPad as well as my iPhone and iPod. I listen to music on the iPad sparingly but it's nice to have in case I don't have my iPod or want to save the battery on my iPhone.

If I start running short on space on the iPad, I will pare down the music library stored on it...

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